When Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser resigned as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy on August 10, her action culminated a remarkable grassroots campaign in which concerned citizens successfully criticized the New York City establishment. But the fight goes on. The | Read More »

The five years since 9/11, in retrospect, have been like a perpetual workshop in which Americans argue about the nature of their enemy and how to defeat him. Along the way, they have made plenty of mistakes, ranging from former | Read More »

Two days after August 10 — when British authorities broke up an alleged plot to blow up multiple aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean — the "moderate" Muslim establishment in Britain published an aggressive open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair. | Read More »

The debate over profiling airline passengers revived after the thwarted Islamist plot to bomb ten airplanes in London on Aug. 10. The sad fact it, due to a mixture of inertia, denial, cowardice, and political correctness, Western airport security services | Read More »

As staff at some of the world’s most prestigious press organizations effectively take Hizbullah’s side in its war with Israel, they inadvertently reveal a profound transformation in the logic of warfare. Some examples of their actions: Reuters: Adnan Hajj, a | Read More »

"There will be an international force [in Lebanon], because all the key players want it," a U.S. official asserted recently. He appears to be right, as even the Israeli government embraced the plan, announcing it "would agree to consider stationing | Read More »

The current round of hostilities between Israel and its enemies differs from prior ones in that it’s not an Arab-Israeli war, but one that pits Iran and its Islamist proxies, Hamas and Hezbullah, against Israel. This points, first, to the | Read More »